Constitution Quote by Anonymous

The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

— Samuel Adams

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the…

— Joseph Story

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”

— Joshua Emmet

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

— William Penn

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience;…

— Samuel Adams

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

— Ferdinand Mount

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

— William Jennings Bryan

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and…

— Russell Kirk